The 12.000 labors of Hercules Martin & Candles

If you wonder what it means to renovate an old house, here's a list that might give you an idea...
It's not a complete list, just the works we have to do in the very next months. The basic works, you see ;-)

Upper garden
-digging to make a garage + building a wood shed on top with typical roof
-building a small wood portail
-installing the whole water exhaust system. Lots of digging again
-putting a fence around the garden so that the kids do not fall
-planting a few trees for more intimacy (very important to me!)

Terrasse (in front of the living room and kitchen)
-digging to install a cleaning tank (for used waters) that will be linked under the house, then up to the garden to the water exhaust system
-digging to intall pumps to help carrying the used waters to the upper garden tanks (does that sound complicate? I hope it does, because it is! lol)
-leveling the ground
-building a small wall with old stones as a fence
-putting paving stones on it, letting some space for a pond

Outside stairs
-making it safer with a new handrail
-cleaning the lil place under the stairs (that have been invided by snails, mountains of snails' shit in it, yuucky!)

Storeroom (ground floor)
-renovating the walls
-building a wall to separate the kitchen from the storeroom
-installing the hot water tank
-installing the heating system (based on wood)
-digging for the exhaust waters' pipes
-remaking the floor

kitchen (ground floor)
-renovating the walls
-digging for the exhaust waters' pipes
-installing a heating system in the floor
-making the floor (old tiles)
-new door to make to go to the terrasse

living room (ground floor)
-installing a heating system in the floor
-making a new floor (old tiles)
-making the stairs to the first floor
-building the fireplace with old stones
-new door to install to go to the terrasse
-new entrance door
-renovating the walls

Okies, I won't mention TODAY (your lucky day :P) the works for the first floor (work room, bathroom, guest room) and the second floor (our bedroom and the kids' one)... hehe, it would be way too long, and boring for you! I keep that for later :P

And when I think I do not mention yet the electricity system and all the rest that make of a house a "normal" house.

What will cost really much here is the water exhaust system, the heating system, the new doors, the stairs and the floors. Even if we make everything by ourselves...!

Like, you wouldn't imagine the price, but we bought last weekend 1 ton of sand (=lil mountain of sand on 2m²) to prepare the joints for the walls... that isn't much sand at all, and it's sand only. The price of it was about 130 euros! Just for some sand!
Materials are much more expensive than I expected.

So, hm, wish me luck, muscles and lottery, that would make my day ;-)